> what's probably happening for you is that all of the cached pages for
> the emacs executable are being reused in favor of the files you're
> copying.
Emacs is probably a special case. Most of the emacs pages (in any
emacs older than a few minute) are going to be data. I'm not sure the
text-space-only hacks are going to change things much one way or the
other.
$ size /usr/pkg/bin/emacs
text data bss dec hex filename
952497 2143768 0 3096265 2f3ec9 /usr/pkg/bin/emacs
$ ps -alxgww
UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
100 18551 1 0 2 0 32448 34120 select I ?? 6:17.65 emacs
In emacs starts out with 1MB text 2MB data and grows the data from
there (34MB in my case).
-wolfgang
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